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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>sex | The Love Network</title><link>http://sex.love.com</link><language>en-us</language><docs>http://sex.love.com/rss.xml</docs><description>A Blog with news about sex</description><copyright>AOL LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.</copyright><generator>Blogsmith | Relegence | AOL LLC.</generator><item><title>Pretty girls increase risky behaviour in young men</title><link>http://t.love.com/310928104</link><description><![CDATA[Presence of a pretty woman can lead men to throw caution to the wind, says a new University of Queensland research. 


To reach the conclusion, Professor Bill von Hippel and doctoral student Richard Ronay, from the university's School of Psychology examined the links between physical risk-taking in young men and the presence of attractive women at a local skate park, reports The Courier Mail. 

"Historically men have competed with each other for access to fertile women and the winners of those competitions ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 2:51:00</pubDate></item><item><title>The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity</title><link>http://t.love.com/310867059</link><description><![CDATA["Some say [he] is a god and ... has a body which is beautiful and delicate like that of a woman, but has the masculine quality and vigour of a man. But there are some who declare that such creatures of two sexes are monstrosities, and coming rarely into the world as they do, have the quality of presaging the future, sometimes for evil and sometimes for good." 


Throughout history, those born with both male and female physical features have been beset by society's interpretations of them as freaks (The Lanc]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:24:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Skewed Sex Ratios Leading To Increase In Crime</title><link>http://t.love.com/310856669</link><description><![CDATA[Throughout human history, young men have been responsible for the vast preponderance of crime and violence - especially single men in countries where status and social acceptance depend on being married and having children, as it does in China and India. 


A rising population of frustrated single men spells trouble. 


The crime rate has almost doubled in China during the past 20 years of rising sex ratios, with stories abounding of bride abduction, the trafficking of women, rape and prostitution. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:25:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Norrie May-Welby: Man, Woman Or Neuter? The Debate Over Genderlessness…</title><link>http://t.love.com/310849849</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/comeback-poll.jpg"><br>There's another post-op tranny making headlines , but this one's not pregnant! 
Norrie May-Welby is actually fighting for the right to claim NEITHER sex, preferring a truly neutral existence. 
Pop the hood for details. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:57:00</pubDate></item><item><title>University of Michigan</title><link>http://t.love.com/310845685</link><description><![CDATA[Advertising agencies live by the aphorism that sex sells because it's one of the most basic, driving forces in our lives. 
Getting it, however, is a different matter altogether. 
In the animal kingdom, males and females of many species are known to trade resources for sex. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:43:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Isobel Redmond says no equality as gender question still ask</title><link>http://t.love.com/310724508</link><description><![CDATA[Pregnant Man Says He's Pregnant. 
Again Gives Birth! 
As seen on Oprah, View, 20/20, Barbara Walters, Larry King, CNN, Discovery Health, GMA, Insider, Channel 4, BBC. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:57:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Gender war: 2 parties in prostitution</title><link>http://t.love.com/310499582</link><description><![CDATA[IT is common knowledge that no woman can engage in prostitution unless there is a male client involved. 


Yet, every time the subject of prostitution arises, it is only the woman who is charged and it is only the woman's role that is highlighted by the media. 


Can the authorities explain why the clients are not, or rarely, charged, with buying the services of the women? 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Technology, tradition combine in ‘gendercide’</title><link>http://t.love.com/310416573</link><description><![CDATA[While having a scan, a pregnant woman in India is not allowed to learn the gender of her unborn child. 
But her bill might be presented in a file coloured blue or pink - and the meaning is clear. 


The method of skirting around the law is one of many reasons why 85mn women are described as "missing" from the populations of India and China , where the abortion of female foetuses, infanticide and the death of girls through neglect is all too common. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:02:00</pubDate></item><item><title>"They Want To Know Everything About Me"</title><link>http://t.love.com/310403111</link><description><![CDATA[I was expecting more of the 2010 Census. 
It only wanted my name, birth date, age, sex and race. 
White, male, 26 . ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:21:00</pubDate></item><item><title>The battle of the sexes: Face off</title><link>http://t.love.com/310385755</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://media.economist.com/images/images-magazine/2010/12/st/201012stp001.jpg"><br>Dr Jones and Dr DeBruine, themselves a married couple, examined what might be called the Deianira paradox. 
Hercules, demigod and paragon of masculinity in the ancient world, was indirectly done for by his own sexual prowess—his jealous wife, Deianira, accidentally poisoned him with a potion she thought would render him eternally faithful. 
Deianira's predicament is a woman's ultimate dilemma. ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:37:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females</title><link>http://t.love.com/310250495</link><description><![CDATA[Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. 


The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially 'dead' because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley's Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology. 


'These male frogs are missing testosterone and all th]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 8:28:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Australia reverses landmark no-sex ruling</title><link>http://t.love.com/310211651</link><description><![CDATA[An Australian who made world headlines by being officially declared neuter vowed Thursday not to surrender the "sex not specified" identification document authorities in Sydney now claim they issued in error. 
The Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages said the certificate was invalid because new legal advice was that the registrar may "only issue a recognized detail certificate or a new birth certificate following a change of sex in either male or female gender." 


Norrie May-Welby, born male but who de]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 6:25:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Technology, tradition combine in Asian 'gendercide'</title><link>http://t.love.com/310200090</link><description><![CDATA[While having a scan, a pregnant woman in India is not allowed to learn the gender of her unborn child. 
But her bill might be presented in a file coloured blue or pink - and the meaning is clear. 


The method of skirting around the law is one of many reasons why 85 million women are described as "missing" from the populations of India and China, where the abortion of female foetuses, infanticide and the death of girls through neglect is all too common. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 5:41:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Study: Nice Cars Make Men More Attractive</title><link>http://t.love.com/310013043</link><description><![CDATA[The findings of a new scientific study might not surprise anyone, but researchers found that women find men more attractive when they are driving high-end cars. 


It's been said that the clothes make the man, but a new study published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests it's also your car. 


The study randomly selected 240 random people who were then shown photos of an average looking person seated inside a costly vehicle or a reasonably priced, modest car. 

]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:19:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Through the Sexual Looking Glass</title><link>http://t.love.com/309981140</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/files/2008/07/zimmer133.jpg"><br>There was a time when seahorses meant little to me. 
They were pleasant to look at in an aquarium. 
They seemed to show up a lot on the walls of restaurants near beaches. ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Women in Healthy Nations Prefer Metrosexual Look</title><link>http://t.love.com/309952925</link><description><![CDATA[Whether a woman finds herself attracted to big-jawed macho types or softer, more feminine-looking men may be a question of health. 
A new study of women in 30 countries found that those in places where life expectancy is low and disease rates are high, like Mexico, preferred men with masculine faces; women in healthier countries like Sweden went for more metrosexual faces. 


The researchers behind the study chalk up the difference to unconscious evolutionary strategies: A more masculine look suggests a man]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:22:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Of Mice and Women</title><link>http://t.love.com/309888000</link><description><![CDATA[Nature News reports that the lack of female research participants — from basic research in animals to clinical trials with human patients — has significant consequences, such as, "for example, when drug candidates fail to get regulatory approval because they don't work in women in late-stage clinical trials." 
Nature notes that researchers tend to prefer the use of male lab animals to limit the potential for the variability of female animals' estrous cycles, and that the ratio of male- to female-only studie]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Why female moths are big and beautiful</title><link>http://t.love.com/309879103</link><description><![CDATA[In most animal species, males and females show obvious differences in body size. 
But how can this be, given that both sexes share the same genes governing their growth? 
University of Arizona entomologists studied this conundrum in moths and found clues that had been overlooked by previous efforts to explain this mystery of nature. 

]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 9:53:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Peculiar sex facts on our animal kingdom</title><link>http://t.love.com/309749102</link><description><![CDATA[A bonobo is a type of chimpanzee with a penchant for smiling. 
Bonobos are an endangered species currently living in the wild in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
As bonobos are the closest relative to humans still in existence, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that these primates are the only non-humans that engage in tongue kissing and oral sex. ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 1:57:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Sex: Nerds lose out when women judge on germs</title><link>http://t.love.com/309717049</link><description><![CDATA[Sep 15, 2008 | not rated yet | 0 Women with higher levels of testosterone are more attracted to masculine looking men like celebrity beefcakes Russell Crowe and Daniel Craig. 


Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women. 


Does he love you so? 

]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:12:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Masculine faces appeal most to women in countries where disease is rife</title><link>http://t.love.com/309681816</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/16/1268764007175/Footballer-and-model-Fred-009.jpg"><br>Women who live in healthier countries prefer more feminine-looking men, compared with women living in regions where life-threatening diseases are rife, psychologists say. 
Their research suggests masculine men have the greatest appeal for women who live in areas where a strong genetic make-up is critical for survival. 


A study of women in 30 countries found they were more likely to choose a masculine-looking partner if their country scored low on a health index based on World Health Organisation mortality]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:06:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Russian men tend towards Western women</title><link>http://t.love.com/309390266</link><description><![CDATA[However, with Russian women outnumbering Russian men by almost ten million, some of them aren't happy with the increasing trend. 


When asked on the streets about the matter, one Russian girl noted, "Of course, I am upset. We have very many good women and girls, who are lonely and looking for a young man, or husband. They are clever, good-looking, they want a family. But here we are actually short of men and, naturally, we don't want them to go." 


Easier international travel and the recent financial cris]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 4:56:00</pubDate></item><item><title>The sexual tug-of-war -- a genomic view</title><link>http://t.love.com/309326001</link><description><![CDATA[Males and females of many species often look quite different from one another. 
These differences are thought to have evolved because the sexes often have needs and strategies that do not coincide. 
For example, in fruit-flies, females may do best by concentrating their efforts in acquiring resources to lay more eggs, while males benefit by increasing their mating and fertilization success. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:46:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Man 66, forces wife, 61, to have sex with strangers</title><link>http://t.love.com/309310401</link><description><![CDATA[An impotent 66-year-old man in Sarawak forced his 61-year old wife to star in home made sex videos that he directed. 
The retiree coerced the woman to have sex with 50 foreign "actors" whom he recruited from rubber estates near their home for four years. 


He directed his wife to perform sexual positions with the foreigners who were mostly Indonesian workers and videotaped the sexual acts. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:50:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Tour says it is ...</title><link>http://t.love.com/309307441</link><description><![CDATA[By The Associated Press Claims that Olympian Johnny Weir was not included in the "Stars on Ice" cast because of his sexual orientation are not true, the figure skating tour said. 
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation started an online petition last week, saying Weir was being excluded from the tour because he was not "family friendly." 
Weir has repeatedly avoided questions about his sexual orientation, saying people shouldn't be defined by labels. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:42:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Half-male and half-female chickens studied</title><link>http://t.love.com/309221009</link><description><![CDATA[Scottish researchers say they've solved a longstanding puzzle -- why some chickens appear to be male on one side of their body and female on the other. 


The research involved studying rare naturally occurring chickens with white (male) plumage on one side and brown (female) plumage on the other. 
It was previously thought sex chromosomes in birds control whether a testis or ovary forms, with sexual traits then being determined by hormones. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:11:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Leftover Ladies &amp; 3S Women</title><link>http://t.love.com/309155753</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/25/opinion/schott.jpg"><br>A Chinese term – shengnü – used to describe the country's cohort of unmarried women aged over 30, who are Single, born in the Seventies, and Stuck. 


The number of leftover ladies in Beijing has surpassed 500,000, Li Shuang reported for The Global Times: 

These women choose career and single life over marriage and family, which reveals an individualistic trend over family values, experts say. 

" 
Leftover ladies ," or shengnü in Chinese, has become a buzzword in the Chinese language. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:44:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Study examines sexually active life expectancy</title><link>http://t.love.com/309123610</link><description><![CDATA["sexually active life expectancy" — may be influenced by health and gender, according to a study published in the BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal. 


By age 55, men have an average sexual life expectancy of 15 more years while women can expect 10 more years of activity, said study authors Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau and Dr. Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago . 
However, although men have an increased desire, poor health is more detrimental to their sexuality than it is for women. 

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:19:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Half-Male, Half-Female Fowl Explain Birds' Sex Determination</title><link>http://t.love.com/308074577</link><description><![CDATA["A study of sexually scrambled chickens suggests that sex in birds is determined in a radically different way from that in mammals . Researchers studied three chickens that appeared to be literally half-male and half-female, and found that nearly every cell in their bodies — from wattle to toe — has an inherent sex identity. This cell-by-cell sex orientation contrasts sharply with the situation in mammals, in which organism-wide sex identity is established through hormones." 
Kanan also supplies this link t]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:52:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Myriam Miedzian: No More Funds for Philanderers</title><link>http://t.love.com/307723731</link><description><![CDATA[Attracted by this retired military man's anti- Iraq and Afghanistan war positions, my husband and I supported Massa financially, and my husband raised money for his campaign. 


Attracted by John Edwards's focus on poverty and universal medical coverage, we supported him generously, and helped his presidential primary fundraising efforts. 


We were also strong supporters of Elliot Spitzer and Bill Clinton. 

]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:00</pubDate></item><item><title>South Korea Bucks Crowded Trade In Asian Sons And Now Prefers Daughters</title><link>http://t.love.com/307644233</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4ad5e61c000000000088df42/southkoreangirls2jpg.jpg"><br>The Asian sex gap is now well known. 
There are about 100 million fewer women than men, creating a huge sex imbalance. 


But a recent survey indicates that this may change. 

]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:13:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Half-Cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Identity</title><link>http://t.love.com/307635665</link><description><![CDATA[Chicken sex doesn't work like ours. 
No, not that sex — but the process by which an embryo becomes a recognizably male or female animal. 


Unlike mammals, it's not hormones that dictate a chicken's sex. ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:00</pubDate></item><item><title>An honest face</title><link>http://t.love.com/307601475</link><description><![CDATA[A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women. 


Apr 24, 2006 | not rated yet | 0 Men become more jealous of dominant males when their female partner is near ovulation, researchers at the University of Liverpool have found. 


Aug 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0 (PhysOrg.com) -- Women are attracted to men who look like a masculine version of them, according to a new study. 

]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:07:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Scientists solve puzzle of chickens that are half male and half female</title><link>http://t.love.com/307601414</link><description><![CDATA[Jun 26, 2007 | not rated yet | 0 Most research on sexual conflict ignores the fact that the fitness pay-offs of mating may change drastically over a short timescale, for example over a single day. 


Why Do Males and Females Frequently Differ in Body Size and Structure? 


Oct 08, 2007 | not rated yet | 0 As even the most casual observer of nature knows, males and females frequently differ in body size, form and structure. ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:07:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Gendercide dissected</title><link>http://t.love.com/307305378</link><description><![CDATA[The Economist this week carries an excellent and in-depth look at gendercide, the term coined to describe the impact that the deliberate attempt to favour male babies over female ones has had on the male-female sex ratio throughout the world. 
It looks at the statistics, and what has caused such a skewing to occur, and what its impacts are and may be. 


There is a natural imbalance between boys and girls, with nature ensuring roughly 5% more boys are born than girls in order to compensate for boys being mo]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Men More Accident-Prone in the Presence of Beautiful Women</title><link>http://t.love.com/306884752</link><description><![CDATA[Ever wondered why you become accident-prone when you meet a beautiful woman? 
Well, it turns out there's a very real scientific reason for your behavior. 


A new Australian study shows that men participate in activities that involve greater "physical risk-taking" when an attractive member of the opposite sex is around. ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:15:00</pubDate></item><item><title>When It Comes to Movies, What Do Women Want?</title><link>http://t.love.com/301042081</link><description><![CDATA[What do women want? 
It's certainly not the male chauvinist mind invasions from the 2000 Mel Gibson/Helen Hunt film. 
It's not something that can be boiled down to any single, concrete thing -- that's just not the nature of existence, especially when we're talking about billions of people. ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:04:00</pubDate></item></channel></rss>